especially when you consider edward snowden and his continuing leaks here in what may be around the corner for him. >> the obama administration is finding stuff on the offensive for a whole host of things, the story about people purchasing individual insurance and whether that's going to be the same as the insurance they previously had. nsa story. it wasn't too long ago we were talking about the government shutdown, how awful that was for the republican party, certainly how awful it was for a lot of people who found themselves without paychecks and a lot of services. but certainly the last two weeks have been a very big boom for the republican party and you've seen the obama administration and white house certainly on the defensive. >> with this -- for example, with the nsa, i don't know how it's necessarily a big boom for them because you do have rpz like peter king defending the administration and defending the president. there are not clear divided lines as we saw with the government shutdown and even early on with republicans who were hand in hand on fighting the health care law. >> ta